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1 ICFA 42 “Climate Change and the Anthropocene” Program v. 2021-03-14 9:30 EDT NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR THE CONFERENCE, YOU HAVE BEEN SENT AN EMAIL THAT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIVE LINKED PROGRAM. IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE THE EMAIL, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AS A LOT OF IAFA EMAILS ARE BEING SENT TO SPAM BY VARIOUS EMAIL ACCOUNTS. IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED, AND CHECKED YOUR SPAM FOLDER, AND STILL DO NOT SEE THE EMAIL, PLEASE LET US KNOW. Thursday, March 18, 2021- 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Board Meeting [LIVE] Belle Isle ********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. BIPOC Meeting [LIVE] Magnolia ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND. ********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 13:00 p.m. - 14:00 p.m. JFA Business Meeting [LIVE] Belle Isle SCIAFA Meeting [LIVE] Pine Lord Ruthven Assembly Meeting [LIVE] Magnolia ********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 15:00 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. SCIAFA Meet & Greet / Orientation [LIVE] Belle Isle ********** Thursday, March 18, 2021 16:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. Division Head Meeting [LIVE] Maple ********** 2 Friday, March 19, 2021 08:00 a.m. – 08:50 a.m. 1. (IF/SF/FTV/VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Weirding the Maple Anthropocene I: H.R. Giger, The Matrix, Volodine, and VanderMeer Chair: Dale Knickerbocker East Carolina University Decadence and Parasitism in the Anthropocene: An inquiry into the textual and surreal worlds of Weird Fiction, H.R. Giger and The Matric Trilogy of Films Arnab Chakraborty Independent Researcher Anthropocene Weirding in the Fiction of Antoine Volodine and Jeff VanderMeer Christina Lord University of North Carolina Wilmington 2. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Superhero Ecologies Oak Chair: Mark T. Decker Bloomsburg University There are Black People in the Future: Fast Color, Black Futures, and Radical Ecologies Shelby Cadwell Wayne State University "Thanos Was Right": Masculinity, Toxic Fandom, and the Villainization of Climate Change Dan Hassler-Forest Utrecht University Saving the World?: Superheroes and the Environment Kim Wickham Horry-Georgetown Technical College 3 3. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Fictions Captiva A Chair: Audrey Taylor Sul Ross State University, Rio Grande College Lyricality in the Anthropocene: An Afterlife for the Romantic Tool-Box Sumita Sharma University of Delhi Aspects of climate migration in Parable of the Sower and The New Wilderness Anderson Gomes Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) 4. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Reading I Vista A Host: Bryan D. Dietrich Jeanne Beckwith F. Brett Cox Jean Lorrah *********** Friday, March 19, 2021 09:00 a.m. – 09:50 a.m. 5. (GaH) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] (Re)considering Zombie Narrative Belle Isle from the Comic Shop to the Academy: The Walking Dead, Severance, and Sacrificial Fathers in Maggie, Train to Busan, and Cargo Chair: Bonnie Cross University of Central Florida and Valencia College (Un)Death of the Father: Self-Sacrificing Paternity in Modern Zombie Narratives Kyle William Bishop Southern Utah University Undead, with an MFA: The "Literary" Zombie C. Wylie Lenz Florida Polytechnic University The Death of Rick Grimes and the End of The Walking Dead Angela Tenga Florida Institute of Technology 4 6. (CYA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Who Speaks For the Trees? Magnolia Forests in Fantastic Children's Lit Chair: Alaine Martaus University of Illinois Gnomes, Gnature, and the "Gnifty Gnomobile": or, Elemental Spirits, Deforestation, and American Car Culture Dimitra Fimi University of Glasgow Being a Tree in the Chthulucene: Magic, Kinship and Plants in Margaret Mahy's Fantasy Fiction Melanie Duckworth Østfold University College Harry Potter and the Forbidden Forest Denise Pinnaro Florida Atlantic University 7. (FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Tied to the Land: Fairies in the Pine Natural World Chair: Derek J. Thiess University of North Georgia Save a Horse, Steal a Baby: Fairy Exchange in the First Branch of The Mabinogion Marisa Mills University of Southern Mississippi Breaking the Great Silence in Queen Mab: The Great Famine and Fairies Abigail Heiniger Lincoln Memorial University Naturalizing Death and the Afterlife Through Fairy Tales: George MacDonald's "Little Daylight" Hannah Mummert University of Southern Mississippi 5 8. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Energy, Ecology, and Empathy Dogwood in Video Games Chair: Gerry Canavan Marquette University Animal Crossing, Spiritfarer, and Connections and Empathy during the COVID19 Pandemic Dustin Connis The University of Colorado Denver Power Games: Discourses of Energy in Speculative Video Games Pawel Frelik University of Warsaw Dangerous Pleasures: Mixing Reality, Speculative Fiction, and Ecological Precarity while the World Ends Jessica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh 9. (SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Gender and Sexuality in Science Captiva A Fiction Chair: Kylie Korsnack University of Richmond TERFs, Trans bodies, and Queer Critique in Delany's Triton Dagmar Van Engen Arizona State University Unfair to Judge: Sexual Dynamics and Non-binary Gender Norms in Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Jaclyn L. Sutherland Idaho State University Gender Complexity, Pronoun Usage, and Reading The Left Hand of Darkness with a Modern Perspective Peregrine Brown Framingham State University 10. (Creative) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Author Q&A Session I Vista A Host: James Patrick Kelly Dana Chamblee Carpenter Will Ludwigsen Bryan D. Dietrich Lawrence C. Connolly 6 *********** Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. 11. (CYA/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Intersectional World Magnolia of Harry Potter Chair: Amanda Firestone University of Tampa Hagrid, Messenger of Death Anna Lüscher University of Konstanz Harry Potter and the Dearth of Research Wizards: Questioning the Natural Laws of Rowling's Wizarding World Robin Whittle Independent Scholar The Politics of Portal-Quest Fantasy: Marginalized Identities in Harry Potter Al Maier University of Northern Iowa Beastly, Beautiful "Underbeings": J.K. Rowling's Perilous Expansion of the Wizarding World Sam Morris University of South Carolina Beaufort 12. (IF/SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] The Posthuman and the Maple Anthropocene Chair: Natalie Deam Iowa State University Subverted Dichotomies and Permeable Borders in "Semente Exterminadora" M. Elizabeth Ginway University of Florida Capitalocene ecologies in Rosa Montero’s Bruna Husky series Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Berea College El último sueño: A Novel of Anthropocenic Posthumanistic Sensibility Miguel Ángel Albujar-Escuredo University of Kansas 7 13. (VPAA) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Identity and Intersectionality Dogwood Chair: Eliza Rose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assemble Me, Piece by Piece: Re-Signification of Disability through Fetishization of the Prosthesis Julia Gatermann University of Bremen "I Love Y… Yams": Queer Identity in She Kills Monsters and Kapow-I GoGo Scout Storey University of Georgia 14. 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(SFL) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Africanfuturism Captiva A Chair: Sherryl Vint UC Riverside Gimme My Respect: Steven Barnes the Black Cyberpunk Isiah Lavender III University of Georgia "Master harmonizers": Making Connections in the Post-Disaster World of Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Novella Series Iuliia Ibragimova Dublin City University Climate Change Predictions in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents: A Call to Action Jeanne Griggs Kenyon College 17. (Creative) [LIVE] Author Readings II Vista A Host: Veronica Schanoes Fran Wilde Usman T. Malik Shveta Thakrar *********** 9 Friday, March 19, 2021 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. 18. (IF/SFL/FTV/FTFN) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Creature Features Maple I: Ants, Mosquitos, and Merpeople Chair: M. Elizabeth Ginway University of Florida Incompatible Empires: Insect Apocalypse in Latin America in the early Anthropocene Rachel Haywood Ferreira Iowa State University Mermaids as Mediators between Humans and Nature in Asian Eco-Fantasy Films Li Zeng Illinois State University 19. (FTV) [PRE RECORDED/UPLOADED] Climate Change and (diegetic and Oak non-diegetic) Time Chair: Jen Caruso Minneapolis College of Art and Design "Our Place in the Dirt": Slow Violence and the Cinema of Climate Change Luke Rodewald University of Florida "Welcome to the 21st": Travelers (2016-2018) and the Spectre of Self- Destruction Anna Maria Grzybowska University of Warsaw 1408 and the Structure of Haunting Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Central Michigan University 20. (FL) [LIVE] Panel: Setting up a Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic in a Cove Global Climate Emergency Moderator: Dimitra Fimi University of Glasgow 10 21. 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